Romance Audiobooks discussion

1,000,000 Minutes Listened Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025



All genres are included in the challenge. Books started in 2024 but finished in 2025 should be included in the challenge. Books started in 2025 but finished in 2026 should NOT be included in the challenge.

Post your minutes listened as you finish an audiobook or monthly, however you choose. Each entry should be numbered consecutively, including the cover, title link, minutes listened and the cumulative total added to the previous poster’s entry.

Here's an example.

Jonetta: 1. The Ghost (667 minutes)----667 minutes

Karin: 2. Tangled (700 minutes)----1,367 minutes

Melissa: 3. The Narrows (770 minutes)
4. Iron Lake (800 minutes)
Total (1,570 minutes)----2,930 minutes

Let's get listening!

1. Eeny Meeny (541 minutes)

2. Dangerous Temptation (451 minutes)

3. Beautiful Nightmare (510 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 1,502 minutes

4. The War on Warriors: —-> 490 min.



TOTAL = 1,992 minutes

5. A Blood Seduction (647)

6. A Kiss of Blood (690)

7. Under One Roof (218)

8. Stuck with You (202)

9. Below Zero (223)

(1,980)

TOTAL= 3,972 minutes

10. The Bone Garden (776 minutes)

11. The Elusive Earl (696 minutes)

12. The God of the Woods (875 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 6,319 minutes

13. ★★★★☆ by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone 01/01 690 min
14. ★★★★☆ by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone 01/01 218 min
---> 7,879 minutes

15. Beautiful Ugly (559 minutes)––––8,438 minutes

16. ★★★★☆ by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone 01/04 652 min

---> 9,090 minutes

17. Two Can Play (264)

18. House of Earth and Blood (1,670)

(1,934)

TOTAL = 11,024

19. What Happened to the McCrays? (626 minutes)––––11,650 minutes

20. The Gift of the Magpie (505 minutes) - - - - 12,110 minutes

#21 ( 501 minutes) ---- 12,611 minutes

22. A Fatal Feast (478 minutes) - - - - 13,089 minutes

23. The Caretaker by Ron Rash —> 360 minutes

TOTAL = 13,449

24. Rolling Toward Clear Skies (485 minutes)––––13,934 minutes

25. Bitter Words (343 minutes) - - - - 14,286 minutes

26. Witness in Death (651 minutes) - - - - 14,937 minutes

27. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women +(780 mins) = 15,717 minutes

28. The Close-up (607 minutes)––––16,324 minutes

29. King (693 minutes)

30. Nero (638 minutes)

31. The Henna Artist (656 minutes)

------------------------------------Total: 17,311 minutes

32. Hotel (917 minutes)

33. The Answer Is No (109 minutes)

34. See How They Hide (681 minutes)

35. Steal My Heart (540 minutes)

36. Twisted Love (641 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 20,199 minutes

37. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern (618 minutes)––––20,817 minutes

38. Murder in G Major (489 minutes) - - - - 21,306 minutes

39. The Devious Husband (704 minutes)

40. Indiscretion (529 minutes)

41. The Marriage Portrait (801 minutes)

42. Forever Wild (583 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 23,923 minutes

43. Track Her Down (597 minutes)
44. The Business Trip (547 minutes)––––25,067 minutes

45. ★★★★☆ by Melissa Blair 01/08 801 min
45. ★★★★☆ by Melissa Blair 01/12 896 min
47. ★★★★☆ by Melissa Blair 01/17 856 min ---> 27,620 minutes

48. Murder on Cape Cod (479 minutes) - - - - 28,099

49. My Soul to Keep (708 minutes)

50. Cross My Heart (605 minutes)

51. Down to My Soul (645 minutes)

52. Refrain (387 minutes)

53. Normal People (454 minutes)

54. Darkest Sins (714 minutes)

55. Irish (541 minutes)

56. The Perfect Mother (566 minutes)

57. The Brazen Bluestocking (575 minutes)

58. The Wicked Wallflower (597 minutes)

59. Reckless Love (500 minutes)

60. The Stolen Queen (618 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 34,371 minutes

61. See How They Hide (681 minutes)
62. Her Mother's Grave (670 minutes)––––35,722 minutes

63. Collide (751 minutes)

64. Mexican Gothic (639 minutes)

65. Beg, Borrow, or Steal (675 minutes)

66. The Good Girl (604 minutes)

67. Naked in Death (617 minutes)

68. Glory in Death (616 minutes)


Cumulative minutes: 39,624 minutes

69. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love (472 minutes)––––40,096 minutes

70. Quicksilver by Callie Hart (1241 minutes) ----41,337 minutes

71. On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh (575 minutes) ---- 41,912 minutes

72. Beautiful Beast (679 minutes)

73. The Close-up (607 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 43,198 minutes

74. Fatal Reckoning (608 minutes)––––43,806 minutes

75. Murder on Parade (398 minutes)

76. Nashville Noir (457 minutes)

77. All By Myself, Alone (384 minutes) - - - - 45,045 minutes

78. The Belle of Belgrave Square (921 minutes)

79. Ceremony in Death (631 minutes)

80. Wildest Dreams (553 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 47,150 minutes

81. Head Cases (576 minutes)––––47,726 minutes

82. Private Arrangements (614 minutes)

83. My Inconvenient Duke (717 minutes)

84. The Five Year Lie (761 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 49,818 minutes

85. The Three Lives of Cate Kay (592 minutes)––––50,410 minutes

86. ★★★★☆ by Melissa Blair 01/19 826 min
87. ★★★★★ by Rebecca Yarros 01/23 1,243 min
88. ★★★★★ by Rebecca Yarros 01/31 1,696 min ---> 54,175 minutes

89. Midnight in Death (182 minutes)

90. Formula Fling (459 minutes)

91. Right (411 minutes)

92. Misconduct (661 minutes)

93. Checkmate (658 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 56,546 minutes

94. The Grim Reader (369 minutes)

95. A High-End Finish (532 minutes)

96. Round Up the Usual Peacocks (632 minutes) - - - - 58,079 minutes

97. (673 minutes)----58,752 minutes

98. Lost (746 minutes)––––59,498 minutes

99. Head Cases (576 minutes)

100. One of Us Knows (614 minutes)

101. Tell Me What You Did (590 minutes)

102. Bonded in Death (830 minutes)

103. Starling House (745 minutes)

104. Babel (1,306 minutes)

105. 10 Rules for the Perfect Murder (182 minutes)

106. Still Hung Up on You (148 minutes)

107. The House in the Woods (597 minutes)

108. His to Take (123 minutes)

109. His to Keep (134 minutes)

110. Give Me More (562 minutes)

111. Bride (767 minutes)

Cumulative minutes: 66,672 minutes

112. Nothing Ever Happens Here (573 minutes)
113. Let's Call Her Barbie (771 minutes)––––68,016 minutes

114. The 6:20 Man (708 minutes)––––68,724 minutes

115.The Masked City (745 min)
116.The Ministry of Time (622 min)
117. Hell Bent (976 min)
118. Magical Midlife Madness (429 min)
119. Manhattan Is My Beat (507 min)
120. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (441 min)

Total minutes -----------------------------> 72,444 minutes

Jonetta wrote: "112. Nothing Ever Happens Here (573 minutes)
113. [book:Let's Call Her Barbie|211671383..."

Hi! I think there was some discrepancy in the totaling of the minutes as the message above yours (message 46) had a cumulative of 66k+ minutes and yours shows 8k+ minutes?